Disability Accommodations, World Cup, AI, Romance

Reading, watching, and listening highlights: Week of 7/6/26

New and interesting

• The Disability Accommodation Trap on College Campuses, by Adam Omary

• The World Cup Is Putting American Abundance on Display, by Scott Lincicome

• The AI Debate: Extinction Versus Salvation, by Saul Zimet

• A Mattering Guide to Love and Sex, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

• If the American Dream Is Dead, No One Told the People Who Are Still Chasing It, by Rob Henderson

• Why AI Can’t Take Your Job, from Maxinomics

Hot takes

• Richard Hanania argues that screens are not to blame for poor literacy:

  

  Richard Hanania@RichardHanania

  I believe that the "end of reading" discourse is a moral panic. The Atlantic reports that 35% of high school students are proficient in reading. Sounds bad. But it gives no historical context. In 1994, it was 36%. The numbers have basically been flat for decades.

  

  

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In case you missed it

• Progress Roundup 7/5/26, from HumanProgress.org

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